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We can never know the whole truth, but we do know some of it. We know for sure that Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hononlulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. We know that, although New York Times reporter Nate Cohen confessed in his paper he had "fudged" projection numbers of the outcome of the November 8, 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump still won. We know, though she might change her mind, that the actress Cher is packing her bags "to leave the planet" because of Trump's victory. However, for some commentators there is still some confusion about or refusal...

It's safe to say that there has rarely, if ever, been a president more absolutely sure of the utter and total correctness of his positions than Barack Obama. While outward humility and the intentional display of human hesitation have long been staple behavioral facets of virtually every first-rate high-level communicator as he tries to connect with (and win the support of) his constituency when making difficult decisions, words such as "I've really struggled with this" or "I've thought long and hard about this one" seldom seem to emanate from President Obama's lips. Instead, complete self-assuredness bordering on smug, condescending arrogance...

here is no valid reason for the "protests" each night since Trump's election in cities such as New York and Miami and the riots in Portland. What exactly are they protesting? We had an election, Trump won, and Hillary conceded. It is over. If the "protesters" do not like the results, there is nothing they can do about it under our laws. We do not reverse election results because mobs riot in the streets. They should go home and work on reforming the Democratic Party to nominate a better candidate for 2016. The MSM have reported that these actions are...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Obama did his final Veterans Day appearance at Arlington National Cemetery today, and the media of course made a big deal about that. There's gonna be a lot of Obama lasts coming up that they're gonna be crying tears over, and this was one of them today. Grab audio sound bite number 20. I mean, this I think captures and encapsulates yet another set of challenges that we have because I really would like to be able to -- I don't know if I can do it. I haven't really thought about how. I really would like...

Skip to 3:50 below for the key bit. Good lord. He’s about as far off-script from the usual Democratic message as you can get. After all the Democrats' concern about voter suppression, this is an interesting response from Obama to Al Sharpton in a new interview pic.twitter.com/9qrJ3riT6a— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) November 4, 2016 I assume the left will walk this back after the election by claiming that O deliberately underplayed the impact of voter-ID laws and fewer early-voting hours in order to boost morale among minority voters. If he had complained loudly here about “voter suppression,” it might have backfired...

Guy has written extensively on the policy trainwreck that is the Affordable Care Act. It is a complete nightmare, with double-digit premium spikes about to hit the nation (on average) next year. ThatÂ’s a Tomahawk missile strike to most home budgets, especially those in AmericaÂ’s middle class. An ironic twist since Obamacare was supposed to help this economic demographic, which now finds itself being more squeezed by this law. Even CNN Money noted that Obamacare is turning into another government program that helps predominantly lower income Americans. Simply put, the law isnÂ’t affordable. Republicans have known this. Minnesota Democratic Gov....

The Roman historian Suetonius recounts that in his waning days, the emperor Tiberius had grown “thoroughly disgusted with himself” having besmirched the honors and successes of his youth with extravagant devotion to a great variety of sexual perversions, interspersed with the paranoid murder and persecution of enemies, real and perceived. Recognizing that history would not look kindly upon him, Tiberius cast about for a solution. What he came up with condemned his country to madness and tyranny, but indeed improved his own image. Tiberius adopted the son of the man he probably murdered to ascend to emperor, the obviously sadistic...

Migrants from China (2,130); Russia (1,863) and Armenia (448) were caught at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2016—and President Obama is priming them—along with migrants from Syria and South America, to vote for Hillary.  $10 million in taxpayer dollars were recently repackaged by the Obama administration’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) into “citizenship integration grants.” The funds were distributed to various organizations that help register migrant voters, including in the key swing states of Florida and Ohio, reported Judicial Watch.  The Obama administration also expanded the unconstitutional Central American Minors (CAM) program to include protection from deportment for individuals...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here's an exclusive story that's running on Reuters today. The headline: "White House Plans Community-Based Prevention of Violent Ideologies." Really? What are violent ideologies and who gets to determine that? Who gets to define what is a violent ideology? We know what this is. Here are the details. "A new White House plan aims to convene teachers and mental health professionals to intervene and help prevent Americans from turning to violent ideologies, work that is currently mostly done by law enforcement, a draft of the policy seen by Reuters shows. "The 18-page plan, to be announced on...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I mean, there isn't any question all of this is rigged. Even George Will, who despises the Trumpster, had to admit that Trump's right about this. And the evidence that George Will cites -- we have it coming up in the sound bites -- is these people, the Democrats, go to the end of the earth, the end of the world, to prevent voter registration rolls from being purged of dead people. The Democrats do everything they can to ensure that people who are dead or illegal immigrants or whatever are on voter registration rolls. That alone...

Negotiators from more than 170 countries on Saturday reached a legally binding accord to counter climate change by cutting the worldwide use of a powerful planet-warming chemical used in air-conditioners and refrigerators. -snip-While the Paris agreement included pledges by nearly every country to cut emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the fossil fuels that power vehicles, electric plants and factories, the new Kigali deal has a single target: chemical coolants called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, used in air-conditioners and refrigerators.-snip-And while the Paris pledges are broad, they are also voluntary, often vague and dependent on the political will of future world...

We live in the information age, which is called that for the same reason the ice age got its name: an overwhelming proliferation of the stuff. We automatically assume that more information is better than less. But as the dinosaurs learned about ice, even something useful can be dangerous in excess. The lesson is, so far, lost on most lawmakers and regulators. In July, President Barack Obama signed a bill requiring foods containing genetically modified organisms to be labeled as such. It's an outwardly innocuous requirement that is supposed to leave consumers better informed but will actually cause many...

When Barack Obama leaves office in January 2017, he can look in the mirror and proudly tell himself that it was he who amassed more federal debt than the 43 men who stood before him, combined.  Just after calling Americans lazy and racist, it is he who holds the honor of plunging the United States into to it's worst debt crisis ever. As of Monday, October 3rd, Obama has officially signed enough lucrative business deals, foreign ransom payments, and government healthcare extensions to create a $19,573,444,713,936.79 federal debt.  That is exactly $9,000,000,000,000 more than when he took office in 2009.  A graph produced...

Americans who enjoy fishing, hunting, and other wilderness sports should be aware of a number of important issues before stepping into the voting booth in November. Despite objections from many prominent Hawaiians and a federal regional fishing council, President Barack Obama recently quadrupled the size of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument (PMNM), first created by President George W. Bush in 2006. Obama used his executive authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906 to extend the marine reserve’s boundaries, banning fishing and mining in the 200-mile exclusive economic zone surrounding the reserve, which covers much of the northwestern islands of Hawaii...

"Congress' overwhelming rebuke of President Barack Obama on a bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia -- and the bitter finger-pointing that followed -- was a fitting coda to the dysfunctional relationship between the Obama White House and Capitol Hill." But it was the headline -- which she probably did not write -- that really completed the picture: "Congress disses Obama one last time." That word, "disses," is just too perfect. For eight years the press has treated Obama like the protagonist in some stage play, personalizing his policy struggles as a heroic effort of one...

Stone Mountain, Georgia — a city with just over 6,000 residents and a poverty rate well above the national average — has resettled more Syrian refugees than Los Angeles and New York City combined.

Hillary Clinton is the worst kind of political animal, one who will exploit anything for political gain, distort facts and shift her positions at will for votes, significantly more than your garden-variety pandering politician. Remember when Clinton was for the Iraq War and then later savaged anyone who believed as she had as if they were reprobates? Remember when she opined that marriage is between a man and a woman? Remember her claim that she left the White House "not only dead broke but in debt"? Her pathetically laughable yarn that she came under sniper fire in Bosnia in the...

During an appearance before the U.K.’s House of Lords on Tuesday, Hollywood actress and human rights advocate Angelina Jolie spoke out about how Islamic State group militants use sexual violence as a means to perpetuate terrorism — and about how we need strong leadership (unlike that of President Barack Obama) to overcome this threat. Jolie’s excoriating speech laid bare just how anemic and pitiful Obama’s response to ISIS has been, and how ISIS is being allowed to build a society based on rape, violence, and of course Shariah law. “They are dictating it as policy beyond what we have seen...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: You know, at the risk of sounding deplorable, I couldn't help it. I'm watching Obama give his swan's song address to the United Nations. And, by the way, it looked just like the cantina scene in Star Wars again. The General Assembly just does. Obama's up there totally, totally talking about himself and how great he's been and how great America was and is, and he limited his apologies, and it was a typical, "You know, I've been really good, underappreciated and y'all are gonna miss me when I'm gone." That's basically what he said. But while...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Then Obama... Yes, I heard about this. I heard about it. Obama went to a fundraiser over the weekend. It's interesting. He says this line almost at every fundraiser. He says this when there is limited media, when there aren't many reporters, just a pool reporter. He says it to big donors. This was an audience of 65 people that had paid anywhere from $7,500 to $65,000 to be in there and listen to him speak, and he said, "This should not be a close election, but it will be. And the reason it will be is...